Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.